Our website uses cookies to personalise content, keep contents in your shopping cart and as part of the checkout experience.
Your personal information you provide will be transfered and stored as encrypted data.
You have the ability to update and remove your personal information.
You consent to our cookies if you continue to use this website.
Allow cookies for
Necessary Cookies Necessary Cookies cannot be unchecked, because they are necessary for our website to function properly. They store your language, currency, shopping cart and login credentials.
Analytics Cookies We use google.com analytics and bing.com to monitor site usage and page statistics to help us improve our website. You may turn this on or off using the tick boxes above.
Marketing Cookies Marketing Cookies do track personal data. Google and Bing monitor your page views and purchases for use in advertising and re-marketing on other websites. You may turn this on or off using the tick boxes above.
Social Cookies These 3rd Party Cookies do track personal data. This allows Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest integration. eg. shows the Facebook 'LIKE' button. They will however be able to view what you do on our website. You may turn this on or off using the tick boxes above.
UCOFSILVER Member 15,417 posts Location: South Wales
Posted: I need to get rid of our current van. Its old, knackered and drinking petrol ( £20 a day or so ).
I commute about 100 miles round trip everyday, so I get through my fair share of fuel. Thus a car would make more sence. However, we need a van or equipment carrying ability as we need to transport hoops to sell, as well as all the camping equipment.
I can't decide if I want to buy a car (Ford Focus I reckon) and hire a van when we go away (£160ish for 4 days ) or if I should just buy a van and commute in that (the position I have is only a temp one at the moment set due end in about 2 months unless they decide to extend).
There is a Ford Focus down the road from us, but I don't know how much it will be for insurance. Its the same with the other vans and vehicles though
I don't know what I want because I don't know how much the insurance will be, but I don't know how much the insurance will be because I don't know what I want.
EeraBRONZE Member old hand 1,107 posts Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
Posted:
Written by
There are two basic designs of diesel pump, Bosch, and Lucas. The Bosch type is fine with veg oil, but the Lucas type doesn't like it
Nuh-uh. The other half was a Bosch diesel fuel injection specialist for 14 years. He's seen many a fuel pump buggered by veg oil, not to mention engine seals. A power unit is designed to burn a single fuel; diesel, anything else is going to destory its innards.
You can get multi-fuel engines, the army fit them to many of its vehicles and we had an ex-military land rover that could cope with just about anything, but you had to adjust the air mix and the timing for each specific fuel. The bloke who is running a veg oil car has been lucky, but when a diesel goes wrong, it does it spectacuarly and expensively, and it's going to happen to him.
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.